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title: “These shoes were quite new when I left Rome,” he said, “and look at… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “These shoes were quite new when I left Rome,” he said, “and look at them now; that will tell you whether you are far from it or not.” Who acts: shoes, Rome, that, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 83

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“These shoes were quite new when I left Rome,” he said, “and look at them now; that will tell you whether you are far from it or not.”

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**Who acts:** shoes, Rome, that, you · **What happens:** be, leave, say, look, tell · **To what, where:** Rome, you, shoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, Rome, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:30:83
# text = “These shoes were quite new when I left Rome,” he said, “and look at them now; that will tell you whether you are far from it or not.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
10	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | this shoes |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | Rome | Rome |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rome |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | at men *= man* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | that |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | shoe |  | far *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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